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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll employees have, independent of age, sex, race, nationality, religion or political opinions, the right to:
a. Remuneration for their work corresponding to quantity, type, quality and experience on the basis of equal pay for equal work;
b. The performance of their task under humane conditions, in order to enable self-development;
c. Safe and healthy working condition;
d. Sufficient rest and recreation. (Art. 28) - DutchAlle werknemers zijn, ongeacht leeftijd, geslacht, ras, nationaliteit, godsdienst of politieke overtuiging, gerechtigd tot:
a. beloning voor hun werk naar gelang van hoeveelheid, aard, kwaliteit en ervaring op basis van het beginsel van gelijk loon, voor gelijke arbeid;
b. het verrichten van hun taak onder menswaardige omstandigheden, ten einde zelfontplooiing mogelijk te maken;
c. veilige en gezonde arbeidsomstandigheden;
d. voldoende rust en ontspanning. (Art. 28)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWages shall be paid in return for work.
The state shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers earn a fair wage commensurate with the work they perform and that they enjoy other social benefits.
In determining the minimum wage, the living conditions of the workers and the economic situation of the country shall also be taken into account. (Art. 55) - TurkishÜcret emeğin karşılığıdır.
Devlet, çalışanların yaptıkları işe uygun adaletli bir ücret elde etmeleri ve diğer sosyal yardımlardan yararlanmaları için gerekli tedbirleri alır.
Asgarî ücretin tespitinde çalışanların geçim şartları ile ülkenin ekonomik durumu da gözönünde bulundurulur. (Madde 55)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The Parliament legislates within the domains attributed to it by the Constitution, as well as the following domains:
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18. the general rules concerning the right to work, to social security,
… (Art. 139) - Arabic
يُشرّع البرلمان في الميادين الّتي يخصّصه له الدّستور، وكذلك في المجالات الآتية:
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18. القواعد العامّة المتعلّقة بقانون العمل والضّمان الاجتماعيّ،
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Le Parlement légifère dans les domaines que lui attribue la Constitution, ainsi que dans les domaines suivants:
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18)- les règles générales relatives au droit du travail, à la sécurité sociale
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
Social security will be organized under the General Social Security System, of a contributory nature and mandatory membership, observing criteria that preserve the financial and actuarial balance, and will, in accordance with the law, meet:
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III – protection to workers in a situation of involuntary unemployment;
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Paragraph 2. No benefit which replaces the contribution salary or labour earnings of the insured shall have a monthly amount lower than the minimum monthly wage.
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Paragraph 7. Retirement is ensured under the general social security scheme, in accordance with the law, upon compliance with the following conditions:
I – 65 (sixty-five) years of age, if a man, and 62 (sixty-two) years of age, if a woman, with a minimum contribution time;
II – 60 (sixty) years of age, if a man, and 55 (fifty-five) years of age, if a woman, for rural workers and for those who carry out their activities in a family economy regime, including rural producers, miners and artisanal fishermen.
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Paragraph 12. A law will institute a special social security inclusion system, with different rates, to assist low-income workers, including those who are in an informal situation, and those without their own income, who dedicate themselves exclusively to domestic work within the scope of their residence, provided that belonging to low-income families.
… (Art. 201) - Portuguese
A previdência social será organizada sob a forma de regime geral, de caráter contributivo e de filiação obrigatória, observados critérios que preservem o equilíbrio financeiro e atuarial, e atenderá, nos termos da lei, a:
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III - proteção ao trabalhador em situação de desemprego involuntário;
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§ 2º Nenhum benefício que substitua o salário de contribuição ou o rendimento do trabalho do segurado terá valor mensal inferior ao salário mínimo.
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§ 7º É assegurada aposentadoria no regime geral de previdência social, nos termos da lei, obedecidas as seguintes condições:
I - trinta e cinco anos de contribuição, se homem, e trinta anos de contribuição, se mulher;
II - sessenta e cinco anos de idade, se homem, e sessenta anos de idade, se mulher, reduzido em cinco anos o limite para os trabalhadores rurais de ambos os sexos e para os que exerçam suas atividades em regime de economia familiar, nestes incluídos o produtor rural, o garimpeiro e o pescador artesanal.
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§ 12. Lei disporá sobre sistema especial de inclusão previdenciária para atender a trabalhadores de baixa renda e àqueles sem renda própria que se dediquem exclusivamente ao trabalho doméstico no âmbito de sua residência, desde que pertencentes a famílias de baixa renda, garantindo-lhes acesso a benefícios de valor igual a um salário-mínimo.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll workers have the right to benefits to compensate them for length of service and protect them in the event of dismissal. … (Art. 92)
- SpanishTodos los trabajadores y trabajadoras tienen derecho a prestaciones sociales que les recompensen la antigüedad en el servicio y los amparen en caso de cesantía. … (Art. 92)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
1. The state, within its constitutional powers and the means at its disposal, as well as in support of the private initiative and responsibility, aims towards:
a) employment under suitable conditions for all persons who are able to work;
… (Art. 59) - Albanian
1. Shteti, brenda kompetencave kushtetuese dhe mjeteve që disponon, si dhe në plotësim të nismës dhe të përgjegjësisë private, synon:
a) punësimin në kushte të përshtatshme të të gjithë personave të aftë për punë;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Bills shall be passed by Parliament.
(2) The following shall be reserved to the legislative power:
(a) The fundamental rights, guarantees and obligations of the citizen:
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(3) labour legislation, trade union legislation, rules governing social security and insurance;
… (Art. 26) - French(1) La loi est votée par le Parlement.
(2) Sont du domaine de la loi:
a- Les droits, garanties et obligations fondamentaux du citoyen:
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(3) Le droit du travail, le droit syndical, le régime de la protection sociale;
... (Art. 26)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll employers must adopt in their enterprises the necessary measures for the hygiene and safety [seguridad] of work. (Art. 66)
- SpanishTodo patrono debe adoptar en sus empresas las medidas necesarias para la higiene y seguridad del trabajo. (Art. 66)
Employment Rights and Protection
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12. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to work, vocational guidance and training and just and favourable conditions of work.
13. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
14. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to fair and reasonable remuneration for one’s work.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༡༢) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ལཱ་འབད་ནི་དང་ ལག་རྩལ་ལམ་སྟོན་ སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ དྲང་བདེན་དང་བྱ་ སྟབས་བདེ་བའི་ལཱ་གི་ ཆ་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་ལཱ་གི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཚད་འཛིན་དང་ དངུལ་ཕོགས་ཡོད་པའི་ དུས་མཚམས་ངལ་གསོ་ བརྩིས་ཏེ་ ངལ་གསོ་དང་དལ་ཁོམས་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༤) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རང་གི་ལཱ་དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་དྲང་སྙོམས་དང་ རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་གླ་ཡོན་གྱི་ཐོབ་ དབང་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Employment Rights and Protection
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Young people, mothers and persons with disabilities shall be entitled to special protection at work. (Art. 64) - Croatian…
Mladež, majke i osobe s invaliditetom imaju pravo na osobitu zaštitu na radu. (Članak 64)